Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research Volume 6

Peta J. White · Russell Tytler · Joseph Paul Ferguson · John Cripps Clark · Jill P. Brown

Nov 2025 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Education practitioners and researchers from around the world will benefit from engaging with this volume, which represents a contemporary, grounded perspective on the research methodologies and methods that inform professional practice. The book series, now in its sixth volume, makes a significant contribution to research methods grappled with across science, mathematics, health and environmental education. The seventeen chapters present contextualised accounts of the design and application of a range of traditional or cutting-edge methodological approaches, grounding approaches within the contextual demands of projects, or reflecting on the wider methodological bases of methods we might otherwise take for granted, or the theories that underpin or inform choices of method including data framing and interpretation. Each chapter tells a story of a contextual need, so that the volume is both informing and entertaining in opening up insights into the educational research enterprise. The significance of the series lies in its presentation of methods as flexible and contextually framed, but with a significant burden to generate evidence that can justifiably inform policy framing and grounded action. As the times change, so must our methodologies and the bases for their ongoing usefulness.

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Peta J. White (BSc (Hons), MRSysMan, PhD, SFHEA) is an Associate Professor in science and environmental education at Deakin University, Australia. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. She researches environmental sustainability and climate change education.

Russell Tytler (BSc (Hons), BEd, MSc, MEd, PhD, FASSA) is a Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Science Education at Deakin University. He has researched and written extensively on student learning and reasoning in science.

Joseph Paul Ferguson (BSc, BA(Hons), MTeach, PhD) is an educational researcher and teacher educator interested in investigating the various manifestations of reasoning in the science classroom, in particular creative reasoning. Joseph seeks to add to efforts to clarify what it means for teachers and students to enact inquiry in the classroom.

John Cripps Clark (BSc, DipEd, MAppSc, PhD) researches Cultural-Historical & Activity Theory and teaches and researches Science, Physics and Design & Technology education to pre-service and practicing teachers.

Jill P. Brown (BSc(Ed), GC(Ma&MaEd), MEd, PhD, GCHE) is a mathematics teacher educator and researcher with over 20 years’ experience in higher education. Her research in primary mathematics investigates mathematical reasoning and mathematical modelling.

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